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Dräger Review Technology for Life 2020 FUTURE CITY It is authenticity rather than perfection that makes a place worth living in COLOR IN CLINICS OIL INDUSTRY IN JAPAN NEW PROTOCOL How architecture can Searching for alternatives SDC is set to simplify data have a healing effectP. 24 in the island country P. 28 exchange in hospitals P. 56 CONTENTS 121 IN THE MIDST OF LIFE Live, work,6 relax, supply, and dispose – cities will have to offer quite a lot in the future to remain attractive. PHOTOS: ISTOCK, PATRICK OHLIGSCHLÄGER, PHOTOS: ISTOCK, PATRICK RONALD TILLEMAN FOR LIAG ARCHITECTS; COVER PHOTO: ISTOCK 24 IN DIALOGUE 60 SUN IN A GLASS Colors, shapes, and light – Wine is nature – and agriculture. An targeted interior design can interaction that has worked well for improve patients’ well-being. decades in the Southern Palatinate region. 2 DRÄGER REVIEW 121 | 1 / 2020 4 42 PEOPLE GOING PLACES A LITTLE HIGH Lombardo Paredes Arenas A year after the legalization of manages a mining company. Ayako Endo cannabis, the Canadian police has works in a refinery. plenty of work on its hands. 6 46 FASCINATION AND FEAR STATE OF EMERGENCY Cities founded our culture – Hospitals still have to function in extreme now they have to be rethought situations. How do they manage it? in many respects in order to remain places worth living in. 50 THE CITY AS AN ORGANISM TANK TASKS Cities are more than just 18 Aircraft store kerosene in their wings. a soulless cluster of people and FIRING ON ALL CYLINDERS These must be inspected concrete. They are as vibrant as their residents. How is it looking Germany’s biggest fireboat is regularly – even from the inside. for the cities of the future? moored in the Port of Hamburg. 56 24 NEW OPPORTUNITIES HEALING EFFECT Standards are speeding up networks. IMPRINT A new protocol is set to simplify data When a hospital looks almost like a hotel, PUBLISHER it can accelerate the healing process. exchange in hospitals. Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA, Communications EDITORIAL ADDRESS 60 Moislinger Allee 53–55, 23558 Lübeck, Germany 28 E-mail: [email protected] THE ORGANIC PIONEERS THE OIL OF THE FUTURE EDITING Organic viticulture is demanding, Björn Wölke (editor-in-chief), Simone Binder Fossil fuels are finite and their but it can also be worthwhile. Tel. +49-451-882-2009, Fax +49-451-882-2080 use is debated with some controversy. CONSULTANT An industry is looking for Nils Schiff hauer new options – also in Japan. ART DIRECTION, DESIGN, PHOTOS: ISTOCK, PATRICK OHLIGSCHLÄGER, PHOTOS: ISTOCK, PATRICK RONALD TILLEMAN FOR LIAG ARCHITECTS; COVER PHOTO: ISTOCK 66 IMAGE EDITING, AND COORDINATION IN GOOD HANDS Redaktion 4 GmbH 34 Gold has been mined in this Colombian FINAL EDITING department for 120 years. Lektornet GmbH DEADLY DUO PRINTING How emergency services can Dräger+Wullenwever print+media Lübeck GmbH & Co. KG protect themselves from carbon monoxide 71 ISSN 1869-7275 and hydrogen cyanide. 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Lombardo Paredes Arenas, CEO of the mining company Gran Colombia Gold “Illegal mining in Latin America is one of in 2016 between the biggest guerrilla are also better paid. Everyone ultimately the continent’s biggest destroyers of the forces, FARC-EP, and the government, benefi ts from this: the companies, the environment. It is mainly the poorest of we have taken a big step in the right rural regions, and the environment, by the poor who put themselves in danger direction. Hopefully it is more than just preventing destructive practices like the at the direction of corrupt and armed a brief respite. Illegal mining is a con- use of mercury in open systems. Gran groups. The causes are rooted in the liv- sequence of poverty. People don’t do it Colombia Gold now directly employs ing conditions of the rural population. In for fun, but because it is often their only around 2,800 people, with a further the rural regions of Colombia, the remain- chance of surviving poverty. The key 2,700 people employed indirectly. The ing guerrillas and organized crime gangs diff erence between this activity and legal people in the second group were previ- still wield some infl uence. This is an ob- mining is the security and training of the ously mainly involved in illegal mining and stacle to healthy economic growth – and staff . At well-run, legal mining compa- have now been integrated into the legal thus makes it diffi cult to exploit the po- nies, the legal regulations in relation to system. Legal mining helps to tackle the tential that lies in mining. Nonetheless, occupational safety and environmental problem of poverty – but there is still a thanks to the peace agreement signed protection are observed; the employees long way to go.” 4 DRÄGER REVIEW 121 | 1 / 2020 THE CHEMISTRY IS RIGHT Ayako Endo, Deputy Managing Director of the Process Division, Wakayama Refi nery, JXTG Nippon Oil & Energy Corporation, Japan “I actually wanted to study Liberal Arts after I fi nished school, but my English wasn’t good enough for it at the time. So I turned my second passion, chemistry, into my profession. At university, I fi rst completed my bachelor’s degree before writing my master’s thesis in the fi eld of catalyst chemistry. Incidentally, the ratio of women to men in my course (230 students) was ap- proximately 1:5. I very much wanted to use my area of specialization in my job, and my professor advised me to do so as well. In 2002, I started my career in the technical division of what was, at the time, the Japan subsidiary of ExxonMobil, and shortly afterwards I was seconded to the refi nery in Singapore for three years. After this experience abroad, I returned to Wakayama, where for the past two years I have been running the process division as deputy managing director with around 250 employees. We have a two-shift system to operate our refi nery 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. I am one of the fi rst generation of women who have been able to make their mark in tra- ditionally more male-dominated areas. Even though I have no problem asserting myself personally, I feel our country could provide even more support for women in the workplace. We can’t aff ord to overlook the po- tential of half of our qualifi ed population. When I get home from work after a 20-minute drive, I look for- ward to reading exciting thrillers – the more murders, the better! Even though digitalization is playing an ever greater role in my work, I prefer to read printed books. And for the past fi ve years I have been learning the art of the classical tea ceremony once or twice a week. And yes, every single detail has a deep mean- ing. Just as in real life.” DRÄGER REVIEW 121 | 1 / 2020 5 FOCUS URBAN DEVELOPMENT FASCINATION AND FEAR Anyone who thinks about the cities of the future probably envisages dirty, noisy concrete jungles surrounded by towering skyscrapers. They may be surprised. TEXT TOBIAS HÜRTER INCREDIBLE EXPANSES The metropolitan region of Tokyo is the biggest in the world. More than 37.4 million people live here – and the figure continues to rise. Yet how can such megacities be kept running? 6 DRÄGER REVIEW 121 | 1/ 2020 ple, the answer to this question is existential. For the first time, more than half of the global population now lives in cities. It is conceivable that this development will soon reach its natu- nyone who has ever been to a typical North Ameri- ral limit and the growth of cities will simply cease on its own.